Box Box 1.14

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Copy letter summarised as 'Lyell to Hull - English Coal fields - Manchester section - Alleghanies - Dawson's 'Arcadia'. Contents relate to Hull's recent papers in 'our journal' relating to information on carboniferous rocks, and which Lyell admires very much. Lyell asks questions relating to Joggins, Nova Scotia

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Copy of a letter, started by Lyell and completed by Mary with corrections by Lyell, and summarised as 'fossil quadrupeds of St. Prest Belgium etc., & Aurignac cave question'.

Scope and Contents Copy letters, the earliest of which is written by Mary, which the final section written by Lyell - no summary but relates to Lesley's publication in 1864 in the Proceedings of the Phil[osophical] Soc[iety] of Philadelphia . Lyell praises Lesley's diagrams showing the complexity of the Appalachians. The second letter [numbered in the folios first] is written by Arabella Buckley, summarised as 'Faults in Appalachians, Hull on Permian overlying Coal-measures Medlicott theory of mountain...

Scope and Contents Five copy letters, including draft responses, to Lubbock, and one copy of Lubbock's letter to Lyell. Summarised as 'Nile deposits - Age of Egyptian buildings - & Lubbock's letter & Extract from 2nd letter March 3rd. Both relate to Horner's work on the Statue of Rameses. Copy letter of 25 May 1865 is Lyell's response to Lubbock's accusation of using his research [see also Coll-203/1/172] and defending his actions. Copy letter of 30 May 1865 documents the transition of Lyell's notes...

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Sixteen copy letters and extracts of letters from Lyell to Moore and Croll. Four are summarised as August 1866 'On Climate', 'What small quantity of snow falls at North Pole - attraction of antipodal ice cap', 'On Croll's speculation as to thickness of ice at South pole', and 2 March 1866 'Heath suggestion of glacial [?] and his astronomical paper', and on 7 March 1866 'How does Adhémar melt the ice at one pole?'.

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Copy letter, summarised as 'Trans[lation] of Antiquity - Glacial erosion - Lago Maggiore'.

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Copy letters - with drafted sections - summarised as 'Lyell to Murray on Geikie's Art[icle] in July Quart[erly] 1 August 1868, and, one letter drafted by Lyell, on the review of Lubbock's article in the Athenaeum accusing Lyell of plagiarism.

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Copy letter summarised as 'Claims of Falconer & Prestwich to priority as to Post Glacial origin of Extinct Mammalia'.

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Copy letter, written by Lyell, and heavily amended, summarised as 'On mention of him [Prestwich] in (Antiquity?)'

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Copy letters, started by another but completed by Lyell, to Ramsay, summarised as 'On denudiation & upheaval of Mendips', 'Ice-erosion', 'Wallace & Hansard E[ast] L[ondon] Museum - L[or]d Gray & Kensington Museum - Borrowing India House specimens' - in which Lyell recommends Wallace for the post of Curator 'in Ethnology & material history & in the art of making the museum a good educational Institution for the working classes'.